By Alexandra Benedict
“Alexandra Benedict has a present for storytelling.”
—Cathy Maxwell
A wealthy and sensuous tale that consists of the reader from the darkish and hazardous underworld to the glowing halls of society, The infamous Scoundrel is one other hot and edgy learn from the terribly proficient Alexandra Benedict. the second one booklet in her Hawkins Brothers sequence that includes a kinfolk of former pirates navigating their manner via London society, The infamous Scoundrel is a unique akin to the early works of Stephanie Laurens—a story brimming with sensuality and intrigue, that includes a darkly mysterious hero and purple scorching love scenes, that fanatics of Suzanne Enoch and Cathy Maxwell will completely adore.
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But our lovemaking had been very real, and I yet treasured the memory. Nor, I told myself, would I forget this one, for I’d never been inside the vast structure that housed the queen’s wardrobe, that which was not of immediate need and kept at Whitehall Palace. I’d adored Elizabeth of England from the first moment I’d seen her, gorgeously gowned, on a white horse, when I was but eleven and she’d come to visit her favorite, the Earl of Leicester, near my home in Warwickshire. The boy led me round the corner into an alcove hidden from the street.
I asked, for a man as important as Edward Arden in this area owed direct allegiance to Leicester. He shook his head and leaned closer. “More like, he’s foregone it. Leicester’s been as mean as that bear on the tunics. He pesters and prosecutes recusants, and Cousin Edward’s spleen is up over it. ” Recusants were those with Catholic loyalties or leanings. They were recorded and fined if they didn’t attend the Protestant church. In the early days of her reign, the queen had commanded that everyone could keep his conscience private, but since several attempted Catholic plots and rebellions, she’d let her advisors convince her to change her policy.
We seemed to have passed from attire to military materials. As we rounded the next corner, my worst fears leaped at me from the shadows. Within a dimly lit grotto of garments, behind a small portable table sat a man simply but finely attired all in black; his amber eyes shone flatly, like an adder’s. It took me but a moment to realize I knew him—that is, I knew who he was. I had glimpsed him at court the time the players had taken me with them. His hunchback form was unmistakable. For months, the whole city had talked of naught but the bloodless battles between this man and the Earl of Essex.